President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko hopes that the Verkhovna Rada will pass a law on national security by the NATO summit.
“I very much hope that by the NATO summit we will be able to present the already voted and signed law,” Poroshenko said at a meeting of Khmelnytsky region’s local authorities on Saturday.
He recalled that this law had already been adopted by the parliament at the first reading
Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the next NATO summit would be held on July 11-12, 2018.
As reported, on April 5, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved at the first reading presidential draft law (No. 8068) on national security.
The document, in particular, provides that the fundamental national interests are the integration of Ukraine into the European political, economic, legal space, the sphere of security, the acquisition of membership in the EU and NATO. The draft law prescribes the procedure for presidential, parliamentary, public control over the national security agencies.
The bill proposes to provide that the amount of expenditures for financing the security and defense sector of Ukraine should be at least 5 percent of the planned GDP, of which at least 3% will be spent on the defense forces.
The Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Defense will next Wednesday, May 23, consider the final version of the draft law on national security, so that on May 24 it will be put to the plenary session, the committee secretary Ivan Vinnyk said.
